Publications
Commentary to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings and its Addendums
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Commentary to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings (PC.DEC/557), the 2005 Addendum Addressing Special Needs of Child Victims of Trafficking for Protection and Assistance (PC.DEC/557/Rev.1) and the 2013 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings: One Decade Later (PC.DEC/1107/Corr.11) is designed to clarify the most challenging issues addressed by the OSCE anti-trafficking commitments and recommendations and to continue to help in the Action Plan’s implementation by all stakeholders. The Commentary has the goal to provide technical assistance to the participating States, in line with the SR/CTHB’s mandate. It also is to serve as a useful, and much needed, reminder of the so-called “agreed OSCE language”, language that clearly demonstrates basic human rights principles and internationally agreed human rights norms and terminology.
Guide on Providing State Guaranteed Primary Legal Aid by Future Lawyers
Publishing date: 5 December 2015
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Guide contains a brief overview of the system of state guaranteed legal aid in Moldova and defines the potential role of law students in this system. It outlines steps to be followed when interacting with beneficiaries of primary legal aid, as well as a number of certain administrative and logistical procedures. The Guide is intended for use by law students and those working in the system of state guaranteed legal aid. Its aim is to enhance the protection of the rights of vulnerable persons and to strengthen the professional capacity of future lawyers. The guide has been produced as part of a project implemented jointly by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Chisinau-based NGO Institute for Penal Reform. It is not available in English.
Combating trafficking in human beings: Central Asia
Publishing date: 13 August 2015
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Ending Exploitation. Ensuring that Businesses do not Contribute to Trafficking in Human Beings: Duties of States and the Private Sector
Publishing date: 3 November 2014
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Occasional Paper, the seventh in a series of Occasional Papers published by OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, outlines the measures that businesses can take to ensure that trafficking in human beings does not occur in their workplaces or those of their suppliers (i.e., other businesses that sell products or services to them). It also reviews the obligations of the OSCE's participating States to regulate business activities and to enable businesses to take appropriate action to stop human trafficking from occurring. It provides a series of recommendations for OSCE participating States.
How to prevent human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households and protect private domestic workers
Publishing date: 3 November 2014
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Handbook for Protocol Officers serves to raise awareness and inform the relevant authorities about how to prevent trafficking in human beings for domestic servitude in diplomatic households, how to detect abuses and how to react to exploitative situations while protecting the rights of the domestic worker. This handbook will increase knowledge about strategies and policies to discourage non-compliance in the employment of private domestic workers in diplomatic households. It will also provide examples of national practices which have proven effective towards those ends.
Leveraging Anti-Money Laundering Regimes to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings
Publishing date: 11 July 2014
Collections: Publications on good governance
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This publication, issued by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities, the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department- Strategic Police Matters Unit, summarizes several years of joint efforts to bridge gaps in the knowledge and capacity of practitioners who are working to counter money laundering and trafficking in human beings. Much of the research contained herein was identified during the OSCE/UNODC Expert Seminar on Leveraging Anti-Money Laundering Regimes to Combat Human Trafficking, held in Vienna on 3-4 October 2011. This publication provides background and information to help practitioners to operationalize the intersection of human trafficking and money laundering.
Combating Trafficking and Exploitation: Human Rights, Social Justice and the Rule of Law
Publishing date: 19 December 2013
Collections: Annual Reports of the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating THB
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This is the 8th Annual Report produced by the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (SR/CTHB) according to the requirements of OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 13/05 on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. This 2005 Decision tasks the SR/CTHB to report annually on the progress achieved over the preceding year’s anti-trafficking work carried out throughout the OSCE region. This report covers the period from January to early December 2013, which corresponds roughly to the 4th and final year of the term of Maria Grazia Giammarinaro. This report will be updated and printed in February 2014 when the SR/CTHB will formally end her mandate as the third OSCE SR.
Training module for civil servants on trafficking
Publishing date: 4 March 2014
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The module was developed by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian Ministry of Labour and Social Issues to implement mandatory training on combating human trafficking for civil servants involved in social and related fields. Available in Armenian only.
Domestic violence cases in the justice system of Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 30 December 2013
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Rule of law
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE Office in Baku developed this report based on the findings collected by the trial monitoring team over the period from July until December 2013. The team assessed and analysed the collected data based on the applicable national legislation and international standards. The monitoring activities were carried out in line with the trial monitoring methodology developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Enhancing Co-operation to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings in the Mediterranean Region
Publishing date: 18 November 2013
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This report presents the key issues and challenges drawn from the interventions and discussions of key players at the seminar on Co-operation to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings in the Mediterranean Region organized by the OSR/CTHB, which took place in Rome on 8 February 2013. Indeed, the Seminar helped in identifying priority areas for possible enhanced co-operation between participating States and the Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation “to address the multiple challenges of a strategy aimed at eradicating modern slavery” in the Mediterranean Region.